India has announced a sweeping set of labour reforms, saying it will implement four long-delayed labour codes that the government says will modernise outdated regulations and extend stronger ...

India's labour laws have undergone a major overhaul, consolidating 29 laws into four codes effective November 21, 2025. This reform aims to boost workplace safety, ease business, and formalize ...

New Delhi: The government has formally consolidated 29 different labour laws into four broad labour codes: Code on Wages (2019) Industrial Relations Code (2020) Code on Social Security (2020) ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - India on Friday implemented four new labour codes, pushing ahead with the biggest overhaul of workers' laws in decades as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government says ...

For decades, navigating India's labour law landscape has been a formidable task for businesses, characterised by a complex web of over forty central level labour laws, many of which were relics of a ...

Last week, India announced it would implement what many say are its most far-reaching economic reforms in decades - compressing 29 federal laws that regulated labour into four simplified codes. As a ...

LOOK AT Indian data and strange patterns start to emerge. Why, for example, do over 95% of industrial firms employ fewer than ten workers, and many others exactly 99? Why are garment factories ...

New Labour Laws in India: Women’s employment in night shifts and certain occupations was restricted. But there is good news for women workers, women are permitted to work at night and in all types of ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has a slew of laws and rules that shape the labour market, regulating the terms of work, hiring and firing, and the working conditions. While the regulations are meant to ...

The new labour laws have raised the threshold for mandatory government approval for lay-offs from 100 to 300 workers. A report by Ambit Capital argues that this single reform could determine whether ...

While the rest of the world frets over artificial intelligence and how it could hollow out demand for human effort, a zeitgeist-defying idea is taking hold in India. Several corporate bosses have ...